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Move files and fodler from a pool to another one (more complex than I thought)

Ok.

So I have this situation.

I use Freenas with 2 pools.

    One for my media and files Other one for downloading legitimate torrent files

    I use a software I don't recall the name to handle the search and download of the torrent files. It download them using a torrent client (Transmission) and copy them when finish to the pool where the files are.

    But that make no real sense since it needs to copy the file so I have it twice and that I cannot use symlinks because NFS does not allow this in 2 separate pools.

    As backup of those two pools, I use syncthing that sunc those 2 "folders" into another NAS (based on openmediavault and a RPI4).

    So I need to plan the move carefully

      Stop syncthing to sync for a while Move the files from pool A to pool B to have this folder structure:
      Before:
      \_POOL_A
        \_Download
      \_POOL_B
        \_Media
      After:
      \_POOL_B
        \_Downloads_A
        \_Media Reconfigure my transmission docker config tthat use NFS to point this new location
      Transnmission will be maybe a little confused about this so maybe we will need to re-locate the download if it complains Do a file cleanup (so remove any duplicate and/or created symlinks from Download_A to Media Reconfigure syncthing to only sync 1 folder/pool instead of 2
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